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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Base Word
Percentile/ percentile rank
Chall's Stage 1
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
2. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.
Vowel Digraph
Keith Stanovich
Latin layer of language
Middle English
3. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Closed Syllable
Six basic types of syllables
Linguistic Method
Composite Score
4. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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5. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Simultaneous teaching
Diphthong
Orthography
6. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Norm-Referenced Test
Open Syllable
Letter naming Chart
Grapheme
7. English as a second language
ESL
Composite Score
Modern English
MSL
8. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Ability
Phonology
Greek layer of language
Norm-Referenced Test
9. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Cedilla
Consonant Digraph
SBOE
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
10. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Mathew Effect
Mastery level
IMSLEC
Fluency
11. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Sound Symbol Association
Profile
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Consonant Digraph
12. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Vowel Digraph
Ability
Impulsivity
Anglo Saxon
13. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Multisensory
Visual Learners
Phonics
Diagnostic tests
14. Wide Range Achievement Test
Chall's Stage 5
Chall's Stage 1
WRAT
IDEA
15. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Consonant Digraph
Grade equivalents
Chall's Stage 0
Derived Score
16. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu
ESL
VV
Standard deviation
Criterion referenced tests
17. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Anglo Saxon
Mathew Effect
Texas Education Code 28.06
Dyslexia
18. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.
Fluency
Latin layer of language
Top-down Reading Approach
Six basic types of syllables
19. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Cognition
Multisensory
Vowel Digraph
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
20. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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21. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer
Criterion-Referenced Test
Comprehension
Stanine Scores
Texas Education Code 28.06
22. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
Accommodation
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Great Vowel Shift
23. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Consonant Digraph
Derivative
Funding
Analytic
24. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Samuel T. Orton
Rate
Analytic
V-e
25. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Trigraph
Linguistic Method
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Middle English
26. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Latin layer of language
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Derivative
27. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
The Norman Conquest
IEP
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Adolf Kusmaul
28. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Auditory Learners
Matthew Effect
Raw score
Modern English
29. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl
Whole Language
Impulsivity
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
V-e
30. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Chall's Stage 0
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
ADHD
Modern English
31. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale
GORT
Synthetic Instruction
Orthography
[-'le
32. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Phoneme
Percentile
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
33. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Simultaneous teaching
Syllable
Percentile/ percentile rank
Pre-English
34. Open syllable
Six basic types of syllables
Macron
Achievement test
V >
35. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
VAKT
Auditory Learners
Standard Scores
CTOPP
36. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Pre-English
Standard deviation
Three Layers of Language
37. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
RTI
Visual Learners
Analytic
38. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Open Syllable
Joe Torgesen
Greek layer of language
Norm-Referenced Test
39. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
ADHD
Quadrigraph
Matthew Effect
Prefix
40. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Sound Symbol Association
V-e
Cognition
Academic Achievement Tests
41. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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42. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t
Mastery level
Anna Gillingham
SBOE
Expressive language
43. Multisensory Structured Language Education
MSLE
Multisensory
Analytic
Derived Score
44. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Expressive language
WRAT
Receptive language
Profile
45. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Diphthong
Three Layers of Language
Great Vowel Shift
NICHD
46. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together
Derivative
V >
Phonics approach
SBOE
47. State Board of Eduation
SBOE
Breve
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Chall's Stage 0
48. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
James Hinshelwood
Auditory Learners
Grapheme
Receptive language
49. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Matthew Effect
RTI
VV
IDEA
50. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.
Combination
Standard deviation
Reading Comprehension Support
Simultaneous teaching